CVE-2025-49866: WordPress Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner plugin <= 4.6.1 - Cross Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability

Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2025-07-04 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-79

Description

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability in Nikel Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner beautiful-and-responsive-cookie-consent allows Reflected XSS.This issue affects Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner: from n/a through <= 4.6.1.

Affected products

Nikel Beautiful Cookie Consent Banner: through 4.6.1

References

https://patchstack.com/database/Wordpress/Plugin/beautiful-and-responsive-cookie-consent/vulnerability/wordpress-beautiful-cookie-consent-banner-4-6-1-cross-site-scripting-xss-vulnerability?_s_id=cve

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